Legislative Updates

Annual Inflation Rate Drops to 2.4 Percent, Lowest Since February 2021 • New Statewide Coalition Aims to Advance Entrepreneurship • Lawmakers Scrutinize ‘Black Box of State PBM Spending’

$120M More Needed for Indiana’s Behavioral Health Infrastructure, Report Says • How Did We Get Here? Historical Analysis of Property Tax Reform Seeks Answers • Indiana Department of Insurance Commissioner to Step Down • Lilly to Invest Another $4.5B in Lebanon Site for New ‘Medicine Foundry’ • More Americans File for Unemployment Last Week; Layoffs Remain Historically Low • U.S. Adds 254K Jobs in September, Blowing Past Expectations • Indiana Ranks Well in National Fiscal Report, Earns a ‘B’ • Indiana Gubernatorial Debates • Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement • Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Why The Fed Went Big Last Week • Report Assesses Impact of Indiana’s Childcare Challenges for Employers, Workers • Braun Health Care Plan Builds Released • Indiana Lawmakers Consider New Legislative Ideas to Further Address K-12 Student Absences

1 Big Thing: Employers’ Big Hiring Pullback • Fed Keeps Interest Rates Steady. But Cuts Aren’t Far Off. • Weaker Labor Market Stokes Fears of a Downturn, Spurs Market Sell-Off • Playbook for Enhancing Indiana’s Mental and Behavioral Health Workforce

Braun Rolls Out Property Tax Relief Plan Calls for Caps • Indiana Finishes Fiscal Year with $2.6B in Reserves Plans Medicaid Deficit Fixes • Stakeholders From Around the State Gather to Address Infant and Maternal Mortality • Cigarette Tax Hike Would Help Ease State’s Medicaid Shortfall Leaders Say • Indiana Debate Commission Sets Governor’s Debate

7/22 Torchbearer Weekly Policy Update Thank you for letting us be your trusted source for local, state, and federal policy updates. Let’s dig in… Confused About High School Diploma Changes? We Explain the Proposal 1 big thing: Maybe the U.S. economy is holding up fine Indiana Revenues Fall Short of Budget Plan in 2024 Fiscal…

7/15 Torchbearer Weekly Policy Update Thank you for letting us be your trusted source for local, state, and federal policy updates. Let’s dig in… Democrat Delegates Nominate Destiny Wells for Attorney General Breaking Down Budgets: Why Medicaid Expenses Are Growing ENTEK Gets Conditional $1.2 Billion U.S. Loan for EV Battery Separator Plant Rush to Seek…

7/8 Torchbearer Weekly Policy Update Thank you for letting us be your trusted source for local, state, and federal policy updates. Let’s dig in… Indiana Leads on 988 Crisis Call Response Where The Economy Stands Halfway Through ‘24 State Awards $51M to Support Housing Infrastructure Analysis Finds that Indiana’s Housing Affordability Gap is Growing The…

7/1 Torchbearer Weekly Policy Update Thank you for letting us be your trusted source for local, state, and federal policy updates. Let’s dig in… Reading Skills, Wetland, Higher Education Laws Going Into Effect July 1 Federal Ruling Against Healthy Indiana Plan Potentially Jeopardizes Program Premiums Return for Indiana’s HIP, CHIP Medicaid Enrollees The Messed Up…

6/24 Torchbearer Weekly Policy Update Thank you for letting us be your trusted source for local, state, and federal policy updates. Let’s dig in… State Revenues Beat Estimates in May Democrat Jennifer McCormick Taps Former Indiana Rep. Terry Goodin for Lieutenant Governor Farmers ask For Property Tax ‘Intervention’ as Communities, Schools Talk Challenges Biden to…